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title	:	Age of Iron : English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power
author	:	Carrithers, Gale H.; Hardy, James D.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807122467
print isbn13	:	9780807122464
ebook isbn13	:	9780585289199
language	:	English
subject	English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--16th century, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century, Christianity and literature--England--History, Power (Social sc
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PR428.H57C37 1998eb
ddc	:	820.9/3823
subject	:	English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--16th century, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century, Christianity and literature--England--History, Power (Social sc

Page i Age of Iron

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Page iii Age of Iron English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power Gale H. Carrithers, Jr., and James D. Hardy, Jr.

Page iv Copyright 1998 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Michele Myatt Quinn Typeface: Adobe Garamond Typesetter: Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. The frontispiece image of the Tower of Babel is reproduced courtesy of the Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carrithers, Gale H., 1932 Age of iron : English renaissance tropologies of love and power / Gale H. Carrithers, Jr. and James D. Hardy, Jr. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8071-2246-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. 2. Literature and historyGreat BritainHistory16th century. 3. Literature and historyGreat BritainHistory17th century. 4. Christianity and literatureEnglandHistory. 5. Power (Social sciences) in literature. 6. RenaissanceEngland. 7. Love in literature. I. Hardy, James D. (James Daniel), 1934 . II. Title. PR428.H57C37 1998 820.9'3823dc21 98-13800 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Page v To our children

Page vii This is the race of iron. Neither day nor night will give them rest as they waste away with toil and pain. Growing cares will be give them by the gods, and their lot will be a blend of good and bad. Hesiod Then came the age of iron And from it poured the very blood of evil: Piety, Faith, Love and Truth changed to Deceit, Violence, the Tricks of the Trade, Usury, Profit. Ovid We are fallen, I do not only say, into an iron age, but into an age whose very iron hath gathered rust. Thomas Pierce ... our age was Iron, and rusty too. John Donne Iron Age presents itself, calling forth the evils. Ben Jonson

Page ix Contents Preface xi 1 Dominant Tropes of Renaissance Life 1 2 Masque and Bergamasque: The Universe in Emblem and Allegory 45 3 The True and Lively Theater: Love Reconciled to Power 98 4 Love, Power, Dust Royall, Gavelkinde 132 5 "O Rare Ben Jonson" 176 6 Marvell and Milton: Moment and Era 232 A Note on Shakespeare 285 Index 293

Page xi Preface Scholars largely agree that western European, certainly English, Renaissance culture was "religious"; and they agree that relative to it, eighteenth-century culture was "secular." This book is animated by the idea that the culture of Renaissance England was fundamentally, profoundly, and obviously centered on religion, for the most part Protestant but also Roman Catholic, or animist, with an occasional whiff of witchcraft and magic. We understand religion as the ocean, so to say, while economics, court politics, law, even literature were the currents, the waves, the whitecaps, even sometimes the foam, always to be known within the underlying religious context. We argue that the Renaissance English saw their lives and society and civilization in religious terms and in particular within the context of four dominant tropes: journey toward ultimate justice and mercy; the differentiating and defining moment; calling, as a Pauline ambassador of the good; and theater, with its manifold permutations (including the true remnant awash in a sea of theatrical pretense). We argue that the Renaissance English understood their lives primarily in terms of "faith and fear" and/or "the sure and certain hope.'' Religion, therefore, is not merely a topic to be studied, like Parliament, the Jacobean stage, colonization, or the draining of the fens, but is the matrix within which all the others occurred and within which contemporaries understood subjects now seen as essentially secular.

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